Nationality Italian Children Mattea Fo, Jaele Fo Name Jacopo Fo Parents Franca Rame, Dario Fo | Role Writer Cousins Alessandro Fo Spouse Eleonora Albanese | |
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Born 31 March 1955 (age 69)
Rome, Italy ( 1955-03-31 ) Occupation Writer, actor, director Notable works Zen and the Art of Fucking Relatives Dario Fo (father)
Franca Rame (mother) Grandparents Felice Fo, Emilia Baldini, Pina Rota Fo, Domenico Rame Similar People Dario Fo, Franca Rame, Alessandro Fo, Beppe Grillo | ||
Novembre 2013 - Corso di Teatro con Dario Fo e Jacopo Fo a Alcatraz (PG)
Jacopo Fo (born 31 March 1955) is an Italian writer-actor and director. He is the son of playwrights Franca Rame and Dario Fo.
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- Novembre 2013 Corso di Teatro con Dario Fo e Jacopo Fo a Alcatraz PG
- Gli ecoshots di jacopo fo la casa ecologica
- References
His 1992 book Lo Zen e l'arte di scopare (Zen and the Art of Fucking) sold more than 70,000 copies. It formed the basis of the 1994 monologue Sesso? Grazie, tanto per gradire! (Sex? Thanks, Don't Mind If I Do!), which Jacopo Fo worked on with his father and mother, featuring educational pieces on topics such as AIDS, contraception, sex education and sexual repression. The government of Silvio Berlusconi, recently risen to power, banned Italians under the age of 18 from seeing it over fears, it said, that the play could "cause offence to the common decency which requires respect for spheres of decency, and provoke distress among adolescent spectators, with possible effects on their behaviour in relation to sex", thus defeating the original purpose of the performance. Much free publicity ensued, with the censorship issue being debated in the national parliament, teachers calling for it to be performed, and audiences and both Italian and foreign intellectuals signing a petition calling for the ban to be overturned.
Jacopo Fo has in more recent times been prominent in the political campaign of Beppe Grillo.
